Visit Highfield Priory School

Open Days

Join us for our Open Doors event on Friday the 16^th of May 2025 where you can explore The Sunday Times Top Independent Preparatory School in Lancashire and the North-West of England. This event will be taking place during a the school day, so you will be able to experience the school as it would be for your child if they joined. During the day you will be taken by your enthusiastic Year 5/6 tour guide, who will show you our fantastic facilities. They love to show off their school and everything we have to offer. You will be able to ask your guide about their experiences at Highfield Priory. This event will provide an opportunity for prospective parents and pupils to visit the school and nursery, meet the staff and pupils and view the facilities and grounds.

If you missed our 'Barn' opening event, our open day is also an exciting chance to explore our brand-new Nursery and Preschool facilities. The new building contains areas for both Nursery and Preschool as well as a new outdoor area. We offer an improved sleeping facility and a wet room for the children to use after their muddy forest school sessions. In the Early Years, our children have the freedom to experiment, discover and explore in our large outdoor area and carefully created indoor learning environments.

Register for our Open Doors Event

If you are unable to attend on the 16^th but wish to view our School or Nursery, contact the school office via email schooloffice@highfieldpriory.co.uk or phone 01772 709624 and we will arrange a personal tour for you.

Personal Tours

In addition to our open days we encourage you to have an individual visit to the school, on a school day, which will enable you to observe the school at work. These can be arranged at a time to suit you and are usually conducted by the headmaster. To book an appointment please contact the school office.

Arrange a Personal Tour

Pupil Taster Days

After a tour of the school, we invite all children wishing to join Highfield Priory to spend a day at the school with their contemporaries. This allows them to meet their new friends and experience life at Highfield Priory for themselves. The taster day will include an assessment as well as lessons from the Highfield curriculum. For early years enquiries, the child is invited to two introduction sessions to help them settle into the early years before they start. Our taster days also enable staff to become acquainted with pupils prior to admission to the school. 

Admissions

Following the taster day, the school will be in touch to arrange a start date. The youngest children are accepted into the school from two years old- children in nursery must attend a minimum of two days. Children may be accepted into the school at any age after this, if places are available.

Registration and Fees

Once the above process is complete, parents who choose Highfield for their children are asked to complete the Application Form. After an offer has been made, parents can register their child and non-refundable registration fee is payable. For Preschool and School, a £400 registration fee is payable (£350 credited when your child leaves the School, providing the correct notice is given) and for Nursery £250 is payable (£200 credited when your child leaves the Nursery, providing the correct notice is given). A place is only secured when the school receives the acceptance document, signed by both Parents (or Guardian), together with the registration fee. A comprehensive fee structure is given on a separate page- it can be viewed on the link below.

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How To Find Us

Our postcode is PR2 5RW.

The school is very easy to get to from the M6 motorway at Junction 31a. You cannot leave the motorway travelling south or get back on travelling north. However other junctions are near.

From the M6 travelling North leave at Junction 31a.

Option 1

From the slip road take the 2^nd exit onto Fulwood Row and park in the small car park close to the driveway entrance and walk up into the school grounds.

Option 2

From the slip road take the first exit, then at the next roundabout take the 3^rd exit and at the next roundabout take the 2^nd exit. You will go over the motorway bridge toward a mini round about and then turn right onto Gamull Lane, then bear right on the bend (the junction with Gamull Lane and Watling Street Road). The driveway leading up into the school grounds is on the right hand side.